Bad Strategies in Tech PR Don’t Work
PR results require skill. To take over a category via PR, concepts must be vetted, researched, and timely, providing meaningful insights in alignment with the targeted media environment’s priorities. They must masterfully blend in trends and data. Sometimes the best way to understand a challenge is to look at what doesn’t work – and why. Tech marketers can pour a great deal of time and investment into a fruitless PR campaign if they aren’t careful. Lots of activity doesn’t necessarily generate solid outcomes. Here are some tactics and approaches to [...]
PR Planning for the Back-Half of 2023
Marketers create strategies and tactics designed to deliver leads and conversions many months in advance. Sales cycles in advanced tech range dramatically from a month to 18 months. B2B tech marketers have to drive pipeline and prove out their platform's value to their market in [...]
Category Expansion: Mastering the Second Half of 2023 for Maximum Impact
We are approaching the half-way mark of a turbulent year. Many marketing executives, after sitting on the sidelines for the first half of the year, are drawing up strategy plans to aggressively close out the year. While SVB’s collapse shook B2B technology companies across the [...]
Platform Driven by AI? Carve Out Your Tech Category – NOW!
Much of the earned media coverage in technology is increasingly focused on AI-oriented platforms. The narratives range from speculation about AI’s impact in the future and its potential negative impacts toward humanity to its more practical capabilities to bring greater levels of efficiency to key [...]
PR in 2023: Analyzing Media Targets
In my previous blog, I focused on the three primary types of thought leadership that should be the primary drivers of PR outreach in 2023 for tech companies: 1) Technical Thought Leadership 2) Data Thought Leadership 3) Visionary Thought Leadership A great thought leadership approach [...]
The Power of Integration: Harnessing SEO and PR for Optimal Results
Search engine optimization is linked to public relations efforts, but it’s not always obvious just how the two strategies go hand in hand. It’s critical that marketers view this relationship as a holistic and transformative practice – it takes time, precision and a granular understanding [...]
PR in 2023: Make An Impact With Thought Leadership
In January, I analyzed three macro shifts that are impacting technology PR coming into the new year: Business, technology, and vertical trade media are rising in importance. Objective analysis and data should rule your PR strategy. Mixing PR with social and owned content is imperative. [...]